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Koch Media has announced details of its Vanguard: Saga of Heroes pre-order campaign, which is exclusive to GAME stores in the UK from tomorrow, 12th January.

Sony's Phil Harrison has admitted that the company "overreached" with its decision to include a Blu-ray drive in PlayStation 3.

Konami appears to have cleared the development decks a bit with the "cancellation" of several PlayStation 3 and Wii titles.

ELSPA has declared that the British videogames industry hit an "all time high" in 2006 with a 7 per cent increase in the number of games sold - bringing the total figure to 65.1 million units.

Sony America has explained away a misleading press release earlier this week suggesting its PlayStation 3 controller had won an Emmy by admitting it was confused about the technology being honoured.

Epic Games' Mark Rein has once again smacked down rumours of a PC version of Gears of War, after various blogs picked up on references to the game in drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards.

id Software's John Carmack says that he isn't sure Sony will come out on top in the next generation.

Microsoft games head Peter Moore launched an unprecedented attack on Sony's PlayStation 3 business at CES in Las Vegas yesterday, saying the company lacks the talent or the company make-up to ever deliver a suitable online console service for consumers.

The UK government has backed a project by Sony Europe and developer Relentless to create a spin-off of the popular Buzz Quiz for the schools market.

Gone are the cries of "I wish I'd seen his face," as EA announces camera support for the 360 version of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.

When we shoot things in videogames, we almost expect the downed foe to leave something shiny behind for us to pick up. It's practically a gaming law, with some of them designed to take advantage of our curious obsessive-compulsive desire to hoard thousands of pointless artefacts like the thieving digital magpies that we are. How many times have we gone back to games we've already finished, just to make sure we've hoovered up every last orb/crystal/coin/whatever? It's the first sign of madness, I tells ya.

How do you improve a game as good as Virtua Tennis 2? Even though it's been four or five years since its release, it's still the best tennis game on any platform, anywhere. The sheer simplicity of the series masks an astonishing achievement: by pinning down the physics of a tennis ball and tying it together with simple, effective controls the game boils down to position and timing. Which means it's basically as open-ended as the real thing, and each game - heck, each point - is capable of unfolding into infinite possibilities. So exactly how do you build on 'one of the most enduringly playable games of all time' (as it's been referred to in some very highly respected quarters)?

More details have emerged of Jeff Minter's XBLA game, Space Giraffe.

The Microsoft-backed Gamerscoreblog has posted a small advisory for players of Xbox Live Arcade's Texas Hold 'em: your leaderboards are about to be reset.

Having banged on yesterday about his desire to appeal to Diablo fans, Flagship Studios CEO Bill Roper has admitted that upcoming PC title Hellgate: London will still have plenty in common with an MMO - including a subscription fee.

Walking around dressed as a Murloc has its ups and downs. Fortunately for us we can be amongst our own kind this coming Monday evening, as we queue up outside Oxford Street's HMV for our exclusive copy of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.

Having given up howling with anguish, Sony's US public relations department is now trying to claw its own brains out using a Memory Stick. Or so we'd surmise - what they're not doing right now is responding to claims they misled the public about an Emmy award for the PlayStation 3 Sixaxis controller.

Those of you logging onto Xbox Live today - perhaps in search of new Live Arcade title Ms. Pac-Man, or on the hunt for the new Gears of War maps - might be surprised by a downloadable update for the Xbox 360 dashboard.

Microsoft will introduce videogame content to the Zune media player within 18 months, according to a new report.

Kuju has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that it has severed its publishing deal with LucasArts for upcoming PSP title Traxion.

Microsoft's Chris Satchell has dismissed rumours of revised Xbox 360 hardware sporting an HDMI port and a high-capacity hard disk, even claiming that photographs rustled up by our old friend Internet Reports mean very little.

Crysis lead designer Jack Mamais is grinning. Microsoft's game showing at CES is relatively small compared to the insanity that was E3, but the reaction his baby's getting leaves nothing to the imagination. Even in its pre-alpha state, PC shooter Crysis looks absolutely knock-out, especially to the general consumer crowd.

The sacred dial of rock is being turned even higher for the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II, as Activision announces exclusive finger-cramping tracks, power-chording them into our collective puddle of melted faces.

MMO developer NetDevil has announced that it's working on a new FPS called Warmonger, Operation: Downtown Destruction

Reports suggest that id Software's mobile phone game Orcs & Elves will be appearing on the Nintendo DS.

Electronic Arts continues its dominance of the UK All Formats charts, with FIFA 07 at number one, Need for Speed: Carbon at two and The Sims 2: Pets at three, in the first chart of the New Year.

Capcom has made good on its promise to release a day-one patch for Lost Planet, which takes care of some of the issues that cropped up between the multiplayer demo in November and the game's release.

Speaking at ginormous electronics show CES in Las Vegas, Flagship Studios head Bill Roper said today that upcoming MMO Hellgate: London is intended to "reach out to Diablo players" and that the title is very much a continuation of Diablo II's gameplay.

In case it wasn't clear from the Discovery Channel's bizarro sponsorship of this week's Gears of War map releases, it's all for free. All you'll have to pay for is the equipment you're using to take possession of Old Bones and Raven Down on the morrow.

While Nintendo UK's been exciting us all with talk of times ahead, its US counterpart has been quietly boosting the ranks of Virtual Console titles with its usual Monday update.